'Breach, breach, breach': The moment police closed in on the Vegas shooter

This is the moment police closed in on the Las Vegas shooter and blew off the door to his hotel room 72 minutes after he started opening fire on country music festival revelers, killing 59 and injuring more than 527.

Daily Mail reports

Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas Village from a room across the street in the Mandalay Bay Hotel at 10.08pm on Sunday.

It took police one hour and 12 minutes to locate Paddock in his hotel room on the 32nd floor after they received the first 911 call. Authorities say Paddock, who had been holed up in the room for several days, killed himself before officers breached the room at 11.20pm.

Officers found him among an ‘arsenal’ of weapons and ammunition, including as many as 19 guns – among them AR-15 and AK-47-type assault rifles.

Police found 18 more guns, explosives and several thousand rounds of ammo in the killer’s Mesquite, Nevada home.

Moments before SWAT teams closed in on Paddock, officers could be heard on an audio recording warning others to get back in the hallway on the 32nd floor so they could breach his room.

‘We have sight on the suspect’s door. I need everyone in the hallway to be aware of it and get back,’ a SWAT member told a dispatcher.

‘We need to pop this and see if we get any further response from this guy to see if he’s in here or actually moved somewhere else.’

The dispatcher can then be heard relaying the information to other nearby officers.

‘All units on the 32nd floor, SWAT has explosive breach, everyone in the hallway needs to move back, all units move back,’ she said.

Seconds later, an officer could be heard saying: ‘Breach, breach, breach’ as the SWAT team blew off the door to his room.

Officers say Paddock was found dead in the hotel room when they stormed in.

Police said at least 10 guns, including multiple rifles, were found in his hotel room. Paddock had been staying at the hotel since September 28.

Officers are seen outside the Mandalay Bay hotel where the shooter was holed up in a room on the 32nd floor

Las Vegas Police undersheriff Kevin McHaill said officers who were at the concert were able to pinpoint where the gunfire was coming from.

‘They could see that the rounds were coming from that particular location as heavy fire, automatic fire at times. And so they were corralling all of the people that were actually at the concert into… behind a block wall,’ he said, according to NBC.

‘So a number of other officers, as the information came out, then went immediately to the Mandalay Bay and began to ascend up to that 32nd floor.

‘What we know is that once we arrived up there we had isolated this individual to the two rooms and then our SWAT team used the explosive breaching to go in and confront the individual.’

TIMELINE OF TERROR IN VEGAS:

Country music star Jason Aldean was performing on stage at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival when lone gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire on the 22,000 people gathered.

About 10pm: Paddock smashes out two windows on the 32nd floor with a hammer-like implement and opens fire with his arsenal of at least 19 weapons – including fully automatic weapons.

10.08pm: First phone call to police that shots had been fired at the festival outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

10.38pm: Police in Las Vegas say that they are ‘investigating reports of an active shooter’ near to the Mandalay Bay.

11.08pm: Las Vegas police confirm they have shut down a portion of The Strip

11.20pm: SWAT teams storm the 32nd floor room that Stephen Paddock was firing from. They gained entry using flashbangs designed to stun the shooter. Officers entered the room and found he had taken his own life. Seventy-two minutes elapsed from the first 911 call to Paddock being found dead.

11.20pm: Hundreds of people began being transported to hospitals in Las Vegas

11.32pm: McCarran International Airport announced it was diverting flights destined for the city.

11.34pm: Interstate 15 in and out of Las Vegas was shut down for a time.

11.56pm: Hospitals in Las Vegas said that at least two people were dead and 24 were injured of which 12 were critical.

12.01am: Almost two hours after the first emergency call police confirmed that one suspect was ‘down’.

1.06am: The Southern California police department say that one of their officers is among the injured.

1.34am: At this point the death toll dramatic rises to 20 people injured and 100 injured.

1.54am: Police in Las Vegas says that two of their officers who were off-duty were among the dead.

2.13am: Investigators say that they are looking for the ‘roommate’ of the shooter – Marilou Danley and describe her as a person of interest.

3.30am: Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo announces that the death toll is now at least 50 dead and 200 injured – making this the deadliest shooting in US history

6.30am: Investigators say they have located Marilou Danley and say that she is overseas and is not longer a person of interest.

9.30am: Sheriff provides another update and says that the death toll is now in excess of 58 and that 515 people are injured.